O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 12-5-72 (2019)

Prospecting for underground water supplies - Contracts with counties or municipalities for use of water

✓ O.C.G.A. — 2019 edition (Public.Resource.Org Release 73)

Code text and O.C.G.A. statutory annotations on this page reflect the 2019 Official Code of Georgia Annotated (Public.Resource.Org Release 73, 2019-08-21; public domain per Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org, 2020). The Syfert case-law annotations in Notes of Decisions, below, are current.

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If the department, in carrying out Code Section 12-5-70, shall encounter water in sufficient quantities to be useful to any municipality or county in furnishing water to its inhabitants, the department may contract with such municipality for the use of such water, and, in so doing, may sell or lease any such well or water supply, provided that no such lease shall be for longer than 30 years. Such contract, whether in the form of a lease contract or a sales contract, shall be subject to approval as to form by the Attorney General.

History

Ga. L. 1953, Jan.-Feb. Sess., p. 5, § 4.

Annotations

RESEARCH REFERENCES Am. Jur. 2d. - 78 Am. Jur. 2d, Waterworks and Water Companies, § 2.

C.J.S. - 94 C.J.S., Waters, §§ 539, 541, 542.

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